You Can Learn to Be Subversive Artists from the Smothers Brothers?
This Critical Cuts video explores just how the Avant Garde art movement was transformed by industrial capitalism and the dominance of mass communications. Can we…
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Claudine Gay and Censorship In America
Ashley and Doug discuss the academic left, the censorship industrial complex, and what it means that “free speech republicans” are a thing of the past.…
A Critique of Anti-Imperialist Zionism (ft. Fahkry Al-Serdawi)
Fakhry Al-Serdawi is a Palestinian writer contributing to the Palestinian publication “Arab48” and to the Lebanese publication “Al-Akhbar.” In this episode of Diet Soap he…
Critique of the Anarchist Dialectic (ft. Spencer Leonard)
Spencer Leonard follows up on the recent discussion of Proudhon that featured Ben Burgis, Cyber Dandy, and Douglas Lain. What was Marx’s critique of Proudhon’s…
Beyond Michael Parenti or What is State Capitalism?
Originally uploaded on September 25, 2020 This video returns to the question of how contemporary Marxists should understand the no longer existing socialism of the…
Gender Trouble and Sexual Difference
Susanna Kleeman and Douglas Lain discuss how gender and sex have been transformed and set into opposition in the 21st century. They discuss the films…